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Influencing Up

Marshall Goldsmith

Organizations suffer when key people can't effectively influence up. Although knowledge workers may know more about what they are doing than their managers do and have years of education and experience, they rarely know how to effectively influence up. Influencing up is similar to selling products or services to customers.

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We Want To Retain Control, Even When Using AI To Make Decisions

The Horizons Tracker

Open to influence According to the study’s findings, people are generally untroubled by the prospect of algorithmic decision-making, as long as it leads to outcomes that align with their preferences. .

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Do We Still Thirst For Knowledge As We Age?

The Horizons Tracker

It looks at the neurological changes we go through as we age, and how this might influence our ability to learn new things as we age. And these may result in reward-driven learning in some and cost-driven learning in others.” Lifelong learning. Research from MIT reminds us that we shouldn’t rest on our laurels, however.

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Effectively Influencing Decision Makers: Ensuring That Your Knowledge Makes a Difference

Marshall Goldsmith

Many knowledge workers have years of education and experience in training for their positions, yet have almost no training in how to effectively influence decision makers. The eleven guidelines listed below are intended to help you do a better job of influencing decision makers. The effective influencer needs to be a good teacher.

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Ethical Leaders And Workplace Culture: The Foundation Of Ethical Decision Making

Great Leadership By Dan

The benefits are higher revenue, greater profits, and bonuses. The costs are largely unknown because it is unclear whether any defects exist and, if so, how they might affect the customer. This uncertainty is why cost-benefit analysis is problematic. Deontology.

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7 Ways to Leverage Your Power at Work

Marshall Goldsmith

So, when you are in a lower “box” on the organizational chart, what are some things that you can do to influence those higher up? Influencing up is similar to selling products or services to customers. 4) Present a realistic cost-benefit analysis of your ideas–don’t just sell benefits. ”

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Take It, Leave It, or Change It

The Recovering Engineer

The decision was to do a “cost-benefit analysis&# of our new situation. Attempt to exert positive influence on those things that I couldn’t directly change. Without going into all the details here, the main point of the story came from a decision I made and I encouraged the other members of my team to make.